did u think u would "grow out of it"?

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i remeber the first time i notice i had pimples..it was the summer between 9 and 10th grade and we were on the bus and a kid said to me " u drink to many sodas" at this point i had a clear face bascially but had zits now no marks yet..now im 22 years old and the acne is still going strong ..i didnt think about it for like 2 or 3 years because i thought i would grow out of it..clearzit and oxy pads were the first acne products i bought and they made mines worse

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I had my first zit the summer before 8th grade and I let my shit marinate. I'm 20 now and my mom is still saying I'll just grow out of it. That sentence right there pisses me off more than anything. I think all of my products and prescriptions have made me worse. I had mild up to a couple years ago. Now I'm moderate.

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i remeber the first time i notice i had pimples..it was the summer between 9 and 10th grade and we were on the bus and a kid said to me " u drink to many sodas" at this point i had a clear face bascially but had zits now no marks yet..now im 22 years old and the acne is still going strong ..i didnt think about it for like 2 or 3 years because i thought i would grow out of it..clearzit and oxy pads were the first acne products i bought and they made mines worse

anybody thought they would just "grow out of it"?

IM STILL LIVING IN HOPE ILL GROW OUT OF IT !!! Im only 37 !!!!! yes i tried those oxy pads when i first started getting spots and they defo made them worse . there is so much crap available out there thats why i love this web site cos all of you out there give great advice to which products to use .

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I despise the phrase "you'll grow out of it." In my case, I think I grew into it! I started breaking out around age 12 but it wasn't too bad. I had the occasional zit throughout high school and college and it wasn't until I turned 22 that I got cyst after cyst after cyst. I went on accutane at age 24 and was clear until I was 26. I started the regimen a few months ago and have been clear (with the help of a few cortisone injections) since. Actually, my mother just started breaking out and she's 51!

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Same here, I had the mild teenage acne, really wasn't that bad, but my mom stared me on pancake makup and my skin exploded! Took me a year to clear it up and out. I am 46 and still have the for no reason zit. But I find I break out on my neck now and have to treat it differently. So hate that "grow out of it" statement. I think that sometimes things we do to our skin in our younger years can have far reaching effects later on.

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i remeber the first time i notice i had pimples..it was the summer between 9 and 10th grade and we were on the bus and a kid said to me " u drink to many sodas" at this point i had a clear face bascially but had zits now no marks yet..now im 22 years old and the acne is still going strong ..i didnt think about it for like 2 or 3 years because i thought i would grow out of it..clearzit and oxy pads were the first acne products i bought and they made mines worse

anybody thought they would just "grow out of it"?

I didn't get acne until I got out of high school. I think it was all the partying I was doing, but yeah, I thought it would just go away doing the same thing I had been doing. HAAA. I was very wrong.

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i remeber the first time i notice i had pimples..it was the summer between 9 and 10th grade and we were on the bus and a kid said to me " u drink to many sodas" at this point i had a clear face bascially but had zits now no marks yet..now im 22 years old and the acne is still going strong ..i didnt think about it for like 2 or 3 years because i thought i would grow out of it..clearzit and oxy pads were the first acne products i bought and they made mines worse

anybody thought they would just "grow out of it"?

Oh, sweetie; I am 29 years old and still waiting to grow out of it! I would consider seeing a derm b/c at some point your face might go from oily teenager to dry adult. That is what happened to me and I am on water based topicals to prevent over drying which can exasperate acne in adults. I also was put on glytone (not a prescription, but can't get it at stores) to help with the dead skin cells removal. It is also antiaging!

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i remeber the first time i notice i had pimples..it was the summer between 9 and 10th grade and we were on the bus and a kid said to me " u drink to many sodas" at this point i had a clear face bascially but had zits now no marks yet..now im 22 years old and the acne is still going strong ..i didnt think about it for like 2 or 3 years because i thought i would grow out of it..clearzit and oxy pads were the first acne products i bought and they made mines worse

anybody thought they would just "grow out of it"?

When I was a teen, I worried about it a lot less than I do now. It still bothered me - I had moments where I would freak out about dealing with it, but I figured I was still at the normal age to have it and kept telling myself that I would grow out of it. Now I'm in my early twenties, and I still have problem skin. I'm at the point where I'm realizing that I may not grow out of it. My dad had acne until he was in his twenties, but no one on my mom's side ever had acne...so I suppose there's still a chance that I might grow out of it. I started getting acne at around 10/11...it became more noticiable at around 13. I've never been c100% clear since.

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I'm 21 and the worst acne I've ever had was between the ages of 18-20. I don't know if currently, it's slowing down because I'm "growing out of it" or if it's because of the so called treatments I'm attempting. I really do believe my acne will continue to get better, and I'm willing to bet it will probably almost be completely gone in a few years. If not, I'll actually have a good job in a few years, and I will do whatever it takes at that point to rid myself of it. I've already dealt with it for so many years, so I can wait 3 more.

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When I was preggo (23) and my acne totally disappeared and stayed away for almost a year after my son was born, I thought I had grown out of it. Sadly, it slowly came back after my son turned one. I was sooo upset!

Now, I figure I'll probably be battling it at different levels for the rest of my adult life, or at least until menopause!

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I first got acne in 10th grade (16)...Now I'm 20. It's been 4+ years, and it was worst last year (19). I guess I'm growing out of it. I hope. My bro (21) grew out of it just last year. I hope I can be clear within next year...

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I'm assuming you're talking to me? Well, it hasn't come back at all yet, but I'm just erring on the side of caution and going to assume that it will come back, at least to some degree if not full force, in a few months. Don't ask me why I'm so sure things will go back to the way they were pre-'tane, but I just have a feeling they will. It's probably because every other time I thought I was done with acne and was clear for a good period of time, things went back to shit soon after. Basically, I'm just biding my time until I begin to break out again.

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I didn't really have teenage acne. I went through puberty really early, and I noticed a slight smattering of whiteheads across my forehead about a week before my 1st period (I was about 10) that lasted all of about a month and cleared up. I got one blackhead under my nose when I was 11 and after that my "acne" issue was gone. I grew out of it......I had great skin as a teenager.

I didn't really have a problem with acne until I was 23.....I highly doubt I'll "grow out of it"....even though my derm seems to think I might by the time I finish highschool (he didn't look at my date of birth on my chart and figured I was still in high school)....

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I didn't really have a problem with acne until I was 23.....I highly doubt I'll "grow out of it"....even though my derm seems to think I might by the time I finish highschool (he didn't look at my date of birth on my chart and figured I was still in high school)....

Oh i had to laugh at that, i take it you just run with the Derm not knowing your age?

I'm similar, i never had acne throughout high school. I first suffered from acne at the age of 19, it came on pretty hard too!

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I was expecting to "grow out of" it by my 20's...no such luck. It started at 12 and is still here at 28 ( though under control with BP). I remember my folks in their 30's and I never noticed they had any acne, so I'm hoping that maybe by my 30's I can just move on to treating wrinkles instead of pimples..LOL.

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I'm 21 and the worst acne I've ever had was between the ages of 18-20. I don't know if currently, it's slowing down because I'm "growing out of it" or if it's because of the so called treatments I'm attempting. I really do believe my acne will continue to get better, and I'm willing to bet it will probably almost be completely gone in a few years. If not, I'll actually have a good job in a few years, and I will do whatever it takes at that point to rid myself of it. I've already dealt with it for so many years, so I can wait 3 more.

That's pretty much my story word for word.

It's weird how lots of people here are saying theirs started at 10-13, mine didn't start till halfway through 16 and I never worried about it really because I didn't have an excessive amount but near the end of grade 12 and throughout college it started to get worse, I dropped out of college (not cause of the acne) and while I was back at home working to save for school again I turned 19 and it started to get pretty ridiculous. My mom acted like it wasn't even a problem so when I got a credit card finally I ordered proactiv and it worked for a while but then stopped and my curiosity about the benzoyl peroxide ingredient led me to this site and now the CSR has me clear again at 20, but it's gonna take a couple years before these red marks are completely gone. All I can do is hope that by 25 my skin doesn't need any treatment anymore and the red marks are gone.

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